Ch 15 Cultural_Intellectual

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By: Cole Holland and Andrew Huynh
Cultural

• Buddhism
  • Buddhist merchants traveling Silk Roads bring Buddhism
  • during Han Dynasty Confucian, Daoism, cults that honored family ancestor's most popular
  • fall of Han, Confucianism declined
  • Mahayana Buddhism grow popular in Tang and Sonmg Dynasty
  • oases were 1st sites of conversion
  • Dunhuang becomes Buddhist community
  • Buddhism attracted interest because of high standards of morality, intellectual sophistication, promise of salvation
  • Monasteries emerge attracting converts
  • Buddhist theologians took written texts for investigation into metaphysical themes (nature of the soul)

• Chan Buddhism
  • combined Buddhism with Daoism to explain Buddhist values through Chinese traditions

(example: dharma is like dao)

• emergence of Chan Buddhism emphasizing intuition and sudden flashes of insight in search for spiritual enlightenment
• resembled Daoism more than Buddhism
• Chan Buddhism grew popular; monasteries appear
• Xuanzang visited India to study and clear up Buddhism

• Hostility
  • Daoists and Confucians became hostile towards Buddhism because it was growing popular and replacing traditional Chinese traditions
  • 840s Tang emperors expelled monasteries=expulsion of Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Nestorian Christians, Manichaens but did not eradicate foreign faiths

• Neo-Confucianism
  • combination of Buddhism and traditional Confucian thought
  • used selective parts of Buddhism traditions and writings and adapted them- nature of the soul and individual relationship with cosmos

Intellectual

• need for educated individuals for the bureacracy in the Tang Dynasty which led to the establishment of the Confucian Education System
• curriculum focused on a classic Confucian literature and philosophy
• supplied the complicated Bureacratic system with recruits who could perform the necessary jobs
• Bureacracy of Merit- job determined by an individual's ability and talents

Approved by:Brett Krumenacker and Shane Daggett
Approved By: Theodore Cervantes